Mount Fuji, Japan 1946

Mount Fuji is one of the most iconic images from Japan. In my father's collection of photographs from 1946 there are five pictures of the sleeping volcano. They appear to have been taken from the North side of the mount, at various distances and angles. Given the perspective the lake is most likely to be Lake Yamanaka.

There is also a postcard sized photograph (the ones above are 6x9 cms in original size) of Mount Fuji shown below; but I believe that this is a picture that was given to troops to take or send home as a souvenir of their time overseas.

And, finally, when I was in Japan in 2011 I was able to take these from the Shinkansen train to and from Tokyo and from the plane back to the Netherlands.